Malcolm-Jamal Warner was reportedly swimming along with his 8-year-old daughter when he drowned in Costa Rica.
Each Warner and his daughter, whom he shared along with his spouse, have been noticed struggling within the ocean by surfers close by who dove in to assist, police instructed ABC Information in a Wednesday, July 23, report. (Warner by no means publicly revealed the title of his spouse and kids.)
Information broke on Monday, July 21, that Warner died in Costa Rica in the future prior on the age of 54. Costa Rican Nationwide Police later confirmed that the actor drowned close to Cocles seaside in Limón, Costa Rica on Sunday, July 20, between the hours of two:00 p.m. and a pair of:30 p.m.
Lifeguard teacher Mike Geist, who can also be the vice chairman of Caribbean Guard, defined to Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 22, precisely what transpired that tragic afternoon.
Geist mentioned that after having group surf classes earlier that day, Warner and some different people “determined to get again within the water.”
He recalled three individuals later being seen in “misery” who the lifeguards have been “in a position to get out with some assist.”
“One other individual that was on the seaside with a boogie board went out to go and search for Malcolm as a result of they realized there was a fourth particular person,” Geist mentioned, noting that a health care provider was amongst these trying to find Warner and ultimately the one who discovered him submerged in water.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Rachel Murray/Getty Pictures for WGN America
That physician then administered CPR, but it surely was too late. Warner’s reason for loss of life was later dominated as asphyxia, which in response to the Cleveland Clinic is when somebody doesn’t get sufficient oxygen to their physique.
President of the Chamber of Tourism and Commerce of the Southern Caribbean Roger Sanz instructed Us in an announcement this week that the seaside the place Warner died has “robust currents and generates many waves, making it a extremely energetic space.”
Sanz famous that whereas many resort and trip rental operators do inform their visitors concerning the seaside currents, not all of them clarify the dangers.
“That’s the place issues come up, when individuals come and don’t know concerning the currents or sea circumstances,” Sanz added. “That may result in fatalities and tragedies just like the one which occurred this previous Sunday, when the American actor drowned. … Accidents can occur — and this time, it occurred to us.”
Geist echoed Sanz’s sentiments and famous that being understaffed has turn out to be a problem as effectively when monitoring the native seashores. Geist instructed Us that whereas The Caribbean Guard often patrols Playa Grande each Sunday, they selected to relocate to a different seaside that day to higher monitor an space that had “a number of incidents” in current weeks.
“It’s another excuse that we’d like assist,” Geist defined. “Something we will do to attempt to generate assist for our group will enable us to cowl that seaside. … It’s been troublesome for our group to simply accept that, you already know, we must always have been there fairly frankly and this is able to have by no means occurred.”